Neo Faliro scores 39 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 16,820 people at 13,556 people per km².
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate for Greece as a whole, 100 the safest end of the scale and 0 the least safe, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are. Regional units are scored from Eurostat's police-recorded offence rates per 100,000 inhabitants. Greece publishes nothing finer, so municipalities and districts share out their region's measured rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting — treat those two levels as an estimate, not a count of reported crime.
What Neo Faliro is actually like
The eastern edge of Piraeus on Faliro bay, bounded by Thivon to the north and Dodekanisou toward Kaminia, cut off from the sea by the elevated Poseidonos avenue. A stadium district: Karaiskaki, home of Olympiacos, and the SEF arena, plus the ISAP station and the tram terminus. Most visitors come for a match, a concert or the tram.
After dark
Ordinary and quiet except on event nights, when crowds, road closures and occasional disorder around Karaiskaki change things; police have identified participants in clashes outside the ground. The municipality's July 2026 meeting flagged the SEF traffic islands as a problem site.
Staying here
Cheap and well connected, about 10 minutes by metro from the port, but do not book here on a matchday if you value sleep. For an early ferry you are adding a train leg you do not need.
Reputation against reality. Its bad nights are football nights, not a background condition; on a normal Tuesday it is an unremarkable residential district.
Streets and squares: Poseidonos · Thivon · Dodekanisou · Karaiskaki Stadium · SEF
Other neighbourhoods in Piraeus
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Neo Faliro safe?
Neo Faliro (Νέο Φάληρο) scores 39 out of 100 for property crime on SafetyMap — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on the police-recorded offence rate of its regional unit, apportioned by how built-up Neo Faliro is. That works out to about 1,451 property offences and 148.9 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Neo Faliro safe at night?
Neo Faliro records more crime than most of Greece, so stay on busy, lit streets late at night, keep phones and bags out of sight, and use licensed taxis rather than walking long distances alone.
How does Neo Faliro compare with the rest of Piraeus?
Neo Faliro scores 39 out of 100 for property crime, against 38 for Piraeus as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.